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Photo of Joey Goebel, Nate Fish / © Diogenes Verlag
Joey Goebel

Joey Goebel, born in 1980 in Henderson, Kentucky, is a writer, scriptwriter, and musician – an internationally celebrated multi-talent. His novels Torture the Artist, The Anomalies and Commonwealth have been published in 15 languages. Joey Goebel has a son and lives in Henderson, where he teaches English literature.

Photo: Nate Fish / © Diogenes Verlag

Books

Pressezitate

Caroline Leavitt
Boston Globe

»Wickedly ingenious [...] Goebel's ebulliently funny writing sparkles off the page.«

Daulton Dickey
Pop Matters
»Joey Goebel writes with the passion and humour of a modern day Mark Twain.«
Stefan Maelck
Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hamburg
»Joey Goebel is being acclaimed as a literary discovery of the calibre of a John Irving or T. C. Boyle.«
Pages Magazine, USA
»So as Fitzgerald tagged his generation’s excesses and delusions in ›The Great Gatsby‹ and Bret Easton Ellis did the same in the 1980s with ›Less Than Zero‹, Joey Goebel grabs the Zeitgeist by the nape of the neck and gives it a good twirl...«
Library Journal, USA
»Joey Goebel is a quirky, fresh, and relevant voice for our time.«
Evelyn Finger
Die Zeit, Hamburg

»Like a sleepwalker, the author strolls through the pop-cultural iconic universe as earlier authors moved among the Grecian gods.«

Die Welt, Berlin
»There is hope as long as we have young writers like Joey Goebel.«
Benedict Wells

»Read this incredible author!«

Norddeutscher Rundfunk
»Joey Goebel is being acclaimed as a literary discovery of the calibre of a John Irving or T. C. Boyle.«
Pages Magazine
»So as Fitzgerald tagged his generation’s excesses and delusions in ›The Great Gatsby‹ and Bret Easton Ellis did the same in the 1980s with ›Less Than Zero‹, Joey Goebel grabs the Zeitgeist by the nape of the neck and gives it a good twirl...«
Boston Globe
»Wickedly ingenious ... Goebel’s ebulliently funny writing sparkles off the page.«
Library Journal
»Joey Goebel is a quirky, fresh, and relevant voice for our time.«
Die Zeit
»Against this type of storytelling, the contemporary stars of American realism—from Philip Roth to Jonathan Franzen ... seem like a bunch of schmucks.«
Die Welt
»There is hope as long as we have young writers like Joey Goebel.«

Awards

2009

›Festival-Preis‹ des Internationalen Festivals und Kolloquiums ›Days and Nights of Literature‹ (Rumänien)

2007

Nominierung für den Kritikerpreis in der Altersgruppe 16–18 Jahre der Jury der jungen Leser für Freaks

2007

›Silberner Lufti, Lufti-Jugendbuchpreis‹ für Freaks

2006

Nominierung von Torture the Artist (Vincent) für die Longlist des ›Dylan Thomas Prize‹ in England

2006

›Jugendbuchpreis‹ der Jury der jungen Kritiker in Wien für Vincent